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NAPIER, Francis (10th Lord Napier), Sir Donald Cameron, Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, Charles Fraser-Mackingtosh, Alexander Nicholson, and Donald MacKinnon, Report of Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry into the Condition of the Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1883; digitised and presented in PDF format by Lochaber College, Mallaig, 2007). This group and its findings are often referred to simply as the NAPIER COMMISSION.

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